Mouse embryos grown without eggs or sperm: why, and what’s next?

Abstract

Batalha wasn't alone. When Christiansen, who is not part of the team, saw the data, she gasped. "I was like, 'Oh, there it is,'" she says. "We've had hints of it before, but this is the first time it's really been a 'punch in the face' kind of detection.

Metahumanism, Euro-Transhumanism and Sorgner’s Philosophy. Technology, Ethics, Art

“…But even if we admitted that it is not the somatic cell to have the potential of an embryo but the cell obtained after the intervention of cloning or nuclear DNA transferral, the thesis that a somatic cell and a zygote are equivalent could still be supported, in that we may consider that tomorrow could see technologies to launch the development of a somatic cell a new individual without the need to transfer its DNA. Even if this intervention is not technically possible today, the fact that we can already assemble embryos starting from stem cells (Amadei et al, 2022;Tarazi et al, 2022) shows that this is not science fiction (Willyard, 2022).…”